Richard Melancthon Hurd

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Part of aPriori Capital Partners LP, DLJ Merchant Banking, Inc. specializes in investments in leveraged buyouts. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Hamilton Evans James.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Founded in 2002, Mayo Capital Partners LLC is a hedge fund manager located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides investment management services to endowments, foundations, pension plans and family offices.